\u201cWhat through the universe in leaves is scattered\u201d
Mapping Global Dante in Translation<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/files\/2025\/08\/202425ii-DanteTranslations-poster-title-BLOG-1024x538.jpg\")
<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThis exhibition traces the global journey of Dante\u2019s masterpiece through rare and valuable printed editions, highlighting how translators, artists, and printers have popularized and reshaped the Commedia<\/em>. These volumes reveal a dynamic dialogue between Dante\u2019s poetry and the world. A global literary perspective transforms Dante from a monumental yet isolated figure of the European Middle Ages into a central presence in the ongoing international conversation about humanity, the universe, time, eternity, and the power of literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThis exhibit is co-sponsored by the Center for Italian Studies and the Devers Program in Dante Studies. It is curated by Salvatore Riolo<\/strong> (Notre Dame Italian Studies doctoral candidate) and co-curators Giulia Maria Gliozzi<\/strong> (Notre Dame Italian Studies doctoral candidate), Inha Park<\/strong> (Notre Dame Italian Studies doctoral candidate), and Peter Scharer<\/strong> (Yale Comparative Literature doctoral candidate). Theodore J. Cachey Jr.<\/strong> (Notre Dame) and Jacob Blakesley<\/strong> (Sapienza Universit\u00e0 di Roma) served as consultants on the exhibit.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nCurrent Spotlight Exhibits<\/h4>\n\n\n\nBibliomania<\/em>: The Library of Sir Thomas Phillipps<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\nMay \u2013 December, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/files\/2025\/08\/DSC09406-BLOG-200x300.jpg\")
<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nFew 19th-century antiquarians matched the obsession or eccentricity of English baronet Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872). A self-described \u201cvello-maniac\u201d (lover of parchment), Phillipps spent his life and fortune amassing what became the largest manuscript collection of his time. It included more than 60,000 manuscripts and 20,000 printed works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Upon his death, Phillipps mandated that his collection never be dispersed, nor that any Catholic ever be permitted to view his library. After his will was contested, however, Phillipps\u2019 descendants began the century-long process of ridding themselves of the burdensome trove. This exhibit features five manuscripts that have made their way from the Phillipps collection to the University of Notre Dame, testifying to the fraught legacy of one of history\u2019s most extreme collectors. In this exhibit, three medieval charters, a medieval codex, and an early modern treatise are now available for all<\/em> to see, in direct contrast to Phillipps\u2019 restrictive wishes.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThis exhibit is curated by Anne Elise Crafton<\/a><\/strong>, 2024-2025 Rare Books and Special Collections Postdoctoral Research Fellow.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nArs praedicandi:<\/em> The Materiality of the Medieval Sermon<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\nJune \u2013 September, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/files\/2025\/08\/DSC09321-BLOG-200x300.jpg\")
<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nThis exhibit displays a medieval sermon composed from a variety of preaching aids and sourcebooks: bibles, summae, florilegia, and other systematized anthologies. The sermon was the most influential vehicle for religious and moral instruction: virtues, vices, canon law, and living the faith all reached the masses in urban centers through preaching. The physical formats of the manuscripts themselves provide insight into pastoral care in the medieval world. This exhibit emphasizes a few of the many items from the Hesburgh Library\u2019s collection of medieval manuscripts created for and used by actual medieval preachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This exhibit is curated by David T. Gura, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>, Curator, Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts, Concurrent Professor of Classics and the Medieval Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nThese and other exhibits within the Hesburgh Libraries are generously supported by the McBrien Special Collections Endowment.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nAll exhibits are free and open to the public during business hours.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nSpecial Collections\u2019 Classes & Workshops<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Throughout the semester, curators will lead instructional sessions related to our holdings to undergraduate and graduate students from Notre Dame, Saint Mary\u2019s College, and Holy Cross College. Curators may also be available to show special collections materials to visiting classes, from preschool through adults. If you would like to arrange a group visit and class with a curator, please contact Special Collections<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nEvents<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
This program is free and open to the public.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nFriday, September 12 from 2:00 to 3:30 pm<\/strong> | Exhibit Open House<\/a>: Drop in to meet and speak informally with curator Salvatore Riolo (Notre Dame Italian Studies doctoral candidate<\/em>) about the new exhibit, Mapping Global Dante in Translation<\/em>. Learn how translators, artists, and printers have popularized and reshaped the Divine Comedy<\/em> over the centuries and across the world and discover the Library\u2019s many Dante editions.<\/p>\n\n\n\nLearn more about other Special Collections and Hesburgh Library events<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nRecent Acquisitions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Special Collections acquires new material throughout the year. Watch this blog for information about recent acquisitions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/files\/2025\/02\/MSSP_10118-0001-WillieMoon-666x1024.jpg\")
<\/a>Remembering the Harrisburg Trojans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/files\/2025\/03\/equal-rights-1924-0001a-845x1024.jpg\")
<\/a>The First Women\u2019s Political Party<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/files\/2025\/03\/BOO_006649434-0007-819x1024.jpg\")
<\/a>Discovering Fianna: The Voice of Young Ireland<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/files\/2025\/06\/MSSP_10128-06-0001-896x1024.jpg\")
<\/a>Reading the Gay Rodeo Ephemera Collection for Pride Month<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSome of the recent acquisitions highlighted on the blog in the past year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAnticipated Closures<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Rare Books and Special Collections is regularly open 9:30am to 4:30pm, Monday through Friday. The department will be closed for the following holidays and events:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
September 1<\/strong>, for Labor Day (Monday)<\/p>\n\n\n\nNovember 27\u201328<\/strong>, for Thanksgiving (Thursday and Friday)<\/p>\n\n\n\nOur last day open before the campus closure for Christmas Celebration will be Tuesday, December 23<\/strong>. We will reopen on January 5, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHours and other information for all Hesburgh Library locations can be found on the Library Website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rare Books and Special Collections welcomes students, faculty, staff, researchers, and visitors back to campus for Fall 2025! We want to let you know about a variety of things to watch for in the coming semester. Fall 2025 Exhibits \u201cWhat through the universe in leaves is scattered\u201dMapping Global Dante in Translation This exhibition traces the … Continue reading Welcome Back! Fall 2025 in Special Collections<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1936,"featured_media":3220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5065,75050,77971,75058,75060,12646],"tags":[156,75749,5072],"class_list":["post-10696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-exhibits","category-instruction-and-class-visits","category-italian-literature","category-medieval-renaissance","category-miscellaneous","tag-news","tag-recent-acquisitions","tag-spotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10696"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10715,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696\/revisions\/10715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThis exhibition traces the global journey of Dante\u2019s masterpiece through rare and valuable printed editions, highlighting how translators, artists, and printers have popularized and reshaped the Commedia<\/em>. These volumes reveal a dynamic dialogue between Dante\u2019s poetry and the world. A global literary perspective transforms Dante from a monumental yet isolated figure of the European Middle Ages into a central presence in the ongoing international conversation about humanity, the universe, time, eternity, and the power of literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This exhibit is co-sponsored by the Center for Italian Studies and the Devers Program in Dante Studies. It is curated by Salvatore Riolo<\/strong> (Notre Dame Italian Studies doctoral candidate) and co-curators Giulia Maria Gliozzi<\/strong> (Notre Dame Italian Studies doctoral candidate), Inha Park<\/strong> (Notre Dame Italian Studies doctoral candidate), and Peter Scharer<\/strong> (Yale Comparative Literature doctoral candidate). Theodore J. Cachey Jr.<\/strong> (Notre Dame) and Jacob Blakesley<\/strong> (Sapienza Universit\u00e0 di Roma) served as consultants on the exhibit.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n May \u2013 December, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n Few 19th-century antiquarians matched the obsession or eccentricity of English baronet Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872). A self-described \u201cvello-maniac\u201d (lover of parchment), Phillipps spent his life and fortune amassing what became the largest manuscript collection of his time. It included more than 60,000 manuscripts and 20,000 printed works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Upon his death, Phillipps mandated that his collection never be dispersed, nor that any Catholic ever be permitted to view his library. After his will was contested, however, Phillipps\u2019 descendants began the century-long process of ridding themselves of the burdensome trove. This exhibit features five manuscripts that have made their way from the Phillipps collection to the University of Notre Dame, testifying to the fraught legacy of one of history\u2019s most extreme collectors. In this exhibit, three medieval charters, a medieval codex, and an early modern treatise are now available for all<\/em> to see, in direct contrast to Phillipps\u2019 restrictive wishes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This exhibit is curated by Anne Elise Crafton<\/a><\/strong>, 2024-2025 Rare Books and Special Collections Postdoctoral Research Fellow.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n June \u2013 September, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n This exhibit displays a medieval sermon composed from a variety of preaching aids and sourcebooks: bibles, summae, florilegia, and other systematized anthologies. The sermon was the most influential vehicle for religious and moral instruction: virtues, vices, canon law, and living the faith all reached the masses in urban centers through preaching. The physical formats of the manuscripts themselves provide insight into pastoral care in the medieval world. This exhibit emphasizes a few of the many items from the Hesburgh Library\u2019s collection of medieval manuscripts created for and used by actual medieval preachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This exhibit is curated by David T. Gura, Ph.D.<\/a><\/strong>, Curator, Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts, Concurrent Professor of Classics and the Medieval Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n These and other exhibits within the Hesburgh Libraries are generously supported by the McBrien Special Collections Endowment.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n All exhibits are free and open to the public during business hours.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Throughout the semester, curators will lead instructional sessions related to our holdings to undergraduate and graduate students from Notre Dame, Saint Mary\u2019s College, and Holy Cross College. Curators may also be available to show special collections materials to visiting classes, from preschool through adults. If you would like to arrange a group visit and class with a curator, please contact Special Collections<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This program is free and open to the public.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Friday, September 12 from 2:00 to 3:30 pm<\/strong> | Exhibit Open House<\/a>: Drop in to meet and speak informally with curator Salvatore Riolo (Notre Dame Italian Studies doctoral candidate<\/em>) about the new exhibit, Mapping Global Dante in Translation<\/em>. Learn how translators, artists, and printers have popularized and reshaped the Divine Comedy<\/em> over the centuries and across the world and discover the Library\u2019s many Dante editions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Learn more about other Special Collections and Hesburgh Library events<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Special Collections acquires new material throughout the year. Watch this blog for information about recent acquisitions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rare Books and Special Collections is regularly open 9:30am to 4:30pm, Monday through Friday. The department will be closed for the following holidays and events:<\/p>\n\n\n\n September 1<\/strong>, for Labor Day (Monday)<\/p>\n\n\n\n November 27\u201328<\/strong>, for Thanksgiving (Thursday and Friday)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our last day open before the campus closure for Christmas Celebration will be Tuesday, December 23<\/strong>. We will reopen on January 5, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hours and other information for all Hesburgh Library locations can be found on the Library Website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rare Books and Special Collections welcomes students, faculty, staff, researchers, and visitors back to campus for Fall 2025! We want to let you know about a variety of things to watch for in the coming semester. Fall 2025 Exhibits \u201cWhat through the universe in leaves is scattered\u201dMapping Global Dante in Translation This exhibition traces the … Continue reading Welcome Back! 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Bibliomania<\/em>: The Library of Sir Thomas Phillipps<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nArs praedicandi:<\/em> The Materiality of the Medieval Sermon<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nSpecial Collections\u2019 Classes & Workshops<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Events<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Recent Acquisitions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>Anticipated Closures<\/h3>\n\n\n\n